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Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
Frazer, Garth - 2007
This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …
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Cattle Cycles
Rosen, Sherwin - 1993
U.S. beef cattle stocks are among the most periodic time-series in economics. A theory of cattle cycles is constructed … the demographic structure of the herd to respond cyclically to exogenous shocks in demand for beef and in production costs … evolution of cattle stock and beef consumption. These compare very closely to structural econometric time-series estimates over …
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Poisoned Grapes, Mad Cow, and Protectionism
Engel, Eduardo - 1999
British beef exports did not constitute a protectionist measure, while the US ban on Chilean fruit possibly classifies as such …
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Holy Cows or Cash Cows?
Attanasio, Orazio - 2014
In a recent paper, Anagol, Etang and Karlan (2013) consider the income generated by these owning a cow or a buffalo in two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate of return. Once any reasonable estimate of labour...
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Pace of Adoption of Alternatives to Animal-Source Foods and Climate Goals
Hale, Galina; Onescu, Vlad; Bhangale, Ritesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The global food system is an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change. Animal agriculture is responsible for a large share of the food-system emissions, both directly and through the production of animal feed. Limiting global warming to the goals set forth by...
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Protection Reduction and Diversion : PTAs and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes
Prusa, Thomas J. - 2010
We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings. We estimate AD provisions in PTAs have decreased the incidence of intra-PTA AD cases by 33-55% and have increased the number of AD actions against non-PTA members by 10-30%. The...
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The Trade and Investment Effects of Preferential Trading Arrangements
Dee, Philippa - 2003
This study quantifies the impact of traditional and new age' provisions of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) on merchandise trade and investment. It does so by estimating gravity models of bilateral trade and investment. It finds that recent and some past PTAs are not as benign as some...
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Anonymous Market and Group Ties in International Trade
Casella, Alessandra - 1997
When trade involves differentiated products, preferential ties to a group settled abroad facilitate an exporter's entry into the foreign market by providing information and access to distribution channels. This contrasts with the difficulties experienced by an unattached producer unfamiliar with...
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An Economic Theory of GATT
Bagwell, Kyle - 1997
Despite the important roel played by GATT in the world economy, economist have nto developed a unified theoretical framework that interprets and evaluates the principles that form the foundation of GATT. Our purpose here is to propose such a framework. Working within a general equilibrium trade...
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Returns to Regionalism : An Evaluation of Non-Traditional Gains from RTAs
Fernandez, Raquel - 1997
The last decade has witnessed an explosion in the number of regional trade agreements (RTAs). There seems to be a general if ill-defined belief on the part of many policy-makers, and among a number of academics as well, that there is more to a RTA than the traditional gains from trade. This...
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